Feminist Companion to Judges (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781850754626)

The book of Judges is replete with female figurations, and has, therefore, received a lot of attention from feminist critics. This volume of essays, however, changes the motivation behind this apparent centrality of female figures, claiming that in fact strong androcentric premises underlie the texts. The overall theme of this sparkling collection focusses on wives, daughters and mothers, and their relationships. An introductory section surveys the women of Judges, investigation satire, paradigm and deviation and the midrashic sources; Brenner and Van Dyck investigate the story and song of Deborah; Fuchs and Exum turn their attention to Jephthah's daughter; Amit and Reinhartz look at women in the Samson story. Finally, three essays, including one by Mieke Bal, deal with the brutal finale of the book in chapters 19-21.

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan
ISBN-10: 1850754624
ISBN-13: 9781850754626
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d